Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous